Form: prefabricated blocks
Ingredients: optical fibre (glass), concrete
Finish: polished, brushed
Max size: 1200x400mm
Thickness range: 25-200mm
World’s first commercially available transparent concrete Litracon Classic® is a combination of optical fibres and fine concrete. It can be produced as prefabricated building blocks. Due to the small size of the fibres, they blend into concrete becoming a component of the material like small pieces of aggregate. In this manner, the result is not only two materials - glass in concrete - mixed, but a third, new material, which is homogeneous in its inner structure and on its main surfaces as well. Litracon Classic® is a fully handmade product which results an exceptional and individual pattern of light in each piece. Litracon Classic® was listed among the most important inventions of year 2004 by TIME magazine.
The patent protected Litracon® products present the phenomenon of light transmittingconcrete in form of widely applicable new building materials. They have been beingdeveloped by Hungarian architect Áron Losonczi since 2001.World’s first commercially available transparent concrete Litracon® is a combinationof optical fibres and fine concrete. It can be produced as prefabricated building blocks.Due to the small size of the fibres, they blend into concrete becoming a component ofthe material like small pieces of aggregate. In this manner, the result is not only twomaterials - glass in concrete - mixed, but a third, new material, which is homogeneousin its inner structure and on its main surfaces as well. Litracon® is a fully handmadeproduct which results an exceptional and individual pattern of light in each piece.